The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-01-07
FROM ALL SOURCES.

Omaha has 100 saloons paying $1,000 per
year license, and that money goes into the
school fund. The result u that the public
schools OF Omaha are as fine as any in the
country.
A new cable, over two miles long and cost
ing a. 800, has just been placed over the
BROOKLYN bridge. TO take the place OF the old
one, which has been there since the bridge
was opened.
The soap manufacturers do not look with
favor on the Introduction Of natural gas as
fuel in Pittsburg instead of coal The people
are now so much cleaner that they use only
one half the amount Of soap that they for
merly used.
In 1870 the village of Durham, N. C., con
tanned $50 inhabitants. Now 1t has $500 and
900 or 5000 just outside the boundaries.
The valuation has risen from $4,000 to sS,-
100000. Tobacco, cotton, and woolen facto-
ries account for this.
In South Carolina the colored people own
s10oOO,oOo worth Of property. In North
Carolina there are twenty colored men worth
from $1,000 TO 10000 each. In Louisiana
they pay taxes on sl5OoO,O 900 in New Orleans,
and in the state on S30,0OO,O00
The remains Of the revolutionary hero,
Gen. Israel Putnam, to whom Connecticut
accords the honors of Bunker Hill, have been
removed from their resting place Of a century
and placed underneath new $4,000 monu-
ment which tho state has had erected.
One of the most important industries of the
day is the canning trade, and Maryland and
California are the principal canning states.
Maryland alone gives employment to G0,0O0
persons in canning fruits and oysters, the es-
innate being $50, ,0O0,0 600 cans annually.
Europe's wealthiest cab driver resides in
Belgrave square, London, and has three new
hansoms ON the Birmingham plan. He may
be seen any afternoon in the West End
driving one or other of his vehicles. He
boasts the name of one of the oldest families
in the south Of England.
The free public library movement which
bad its birth in Me-. Hampshire in 1S49 has
assumed enormous proportions. There are
at present 5000 public libraries in the United
States containing 100000 books. The
Boston public library is the largest, contain
ing over 10000 volumes.
There are 80 persons named Shakespeare
in the United States. Their occupations are:
Blacksmith, 1; carpenter, 1; city official
mayor, /; journalist, l; laborers, .; liquor
dealer, l lawyers, 5; physicians, O.; printers,
q; real estate, /; shoemaker, l; tailors, 3;
matchmaker, /, house and sign painter, l.
Benjamin Moore, who died in Berlin re-
Gently, left by will a reward of 81 for every
policeman reporting a case of cruelty to
animals. AS men have no hearts, he wrote
in his will, Il leave my money to the brutes. I"
And he did, enriching the Berlin Society for
the Protection OF Animals by nearly 100000
Rosa Bonheur and half dozen other ladies
are knights--for the masculine form, cheva-
lier, is retained in their case-of the Legion
Of Honor An addition has just been Llade
to their number Nine Dieulafoy, wife OF
the head of the Archaeological mission at
Susiana, has been formally decorated at the
Louvre.
The oldest soldier in the service of the
United States government is Lee Snyder.
He has been in the service fifty years, and
although 10 summers and winters have
passed over his head he is as bright as dol
lar. Two weeks ag2 he stepped aboard a
railIuad train for the first time on his way to
the metropolis.
The Montreal hackmens union have issued
the following circular: ut having been
represented to us that it was wrong to work
on Sunday for good and sufficient reasons
first, because God commanded man to keep
the Sabbath day holy, and, second, because
our horses require rest from labor on the
So, ,enth day as much as We do ourselves
therefore, we, the hackmen of Montreal, be-
lieving that we should act in accordance with
Gods law, do hereby agree TO abstain from
labor on Sundays in future, and request all
hackmen not to bring out their carriages for
hire on Sunday, and God help US to keep
steadfast in this resolution